Law

Q&A Business Law

by Janice Denoncourt

You've planned your revision and you know your subject inside out! But how do you apply what you have learned to get the best marks in the examination room?

Routledge Q&As give you the ideal opportunity to practice...

The Early Warning System for the Principle of Subsidiarity

by Philipp Kiiver

This book offers a comprehensive systematic analysis of the European Union's Early Warning System (EWS) for subsidiarity, which was introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon. The book includes both a detailed theoretical...

Vindicating Socio-Economic Rights

by Paul O'Connell

Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the "Cinderella" of the human rights corpus....

The Politics of Imagination

by Chiara Bottici & Benoît Challand

The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can...

Are Human Rights for Migrants?

by Marie-Benedicte Dembour & Tobias Kelly

Human rights seemingly offer universal protection. However, irregular migrants have, at best, only problematic access to human rights. Whether understood as an ethical injunction or legally codified norm, the...

Islam, Law and Identity

by Marinos Diamantides & Adam Gearey

The essays brought together in Islam, Law and Identity are the product of a series of interdisciplinary workshops that brought together scholars from a plethora of countries.? Funded by the British Academy the...

Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice

by Yves Dezalay & Bryant Garth

Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice examines the people, the conflicts, and the mechanisms involved in producing transnational norms and institutions.

Ethics in Forensic Science

by J.C. Upshaw Downs & Anjali Ranadive Swienton

This work will draw upon the expertise of the editors as authors and various contributors in order to present several different perspectives with the goal of approaching and understanding when ethical lines...

Hobbes on Civil Association

by Michael Oakeshott

Of Michael Oakeshott and his interest in Thomas Hobbes, Professor Paul Franco has written, “The themes Oakeshott stresses in his interpretation of Hobbes are . . . skepticism about the role of reason in politics,...

The Ideal Element In Law

by Roscoe Pound

Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948. In these lectures, he criticized virtually every modern mode of interpreting the law because...

Freedom and the Law

by Bruno Leoni

Those who value individual freedom should reassess the place of the individual within the legal system as a whole. It is no longer a question of defending this or that particular freedom. . . . It is a question...

Policing and Human Rights

by Julia Hornberger

Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training...

Self-Determination in the Post-9/11 Era

by Elizabeth Chadwick

This book discusses the increasing tendency in certain government quarters to incorporate struggles by peoples for their self-determination into the wider anti-terrorist agenda of the post-9/11 era. This tendency...

Regulating the International Movement of Women

by Sharron Fitzgerald

Regulating the International Movement of Women interrogates the complex relationship between the state and the normative regulation of women who cross national borders.

Intellectual Property in Global Governance

by Chidi Oguamanam

Intellectual Property in Global Governance critically examines the evolution of international intellectual property law-making from the build up to the TRIPS Agreement, through the TRIPS and post-TRIPS era....

Human Rights and Constituent Power

by Illan rua Wall

With the emergence of modern human rights in the Universal Declaration, what remained of a radical political potential of the discourse withdrew: statism and individualism became its authorised foundations and...

Debates in Criminal Justice

by Tom Ellis & Stephen P. Savage

This innovative new book recognises that, while criminal justice studies is a core component of all criminology/criminal justice undergraduate degrees, it can be a confusing, overwhelming and a relatively dry...

MORAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW:

by Kirsten Fisher

This book examines international criminal law from a normative perspective and lays out how responsible agents, individuals and the collectives they comprise, ought to be held accountable to the world for the...

On the Right of Exclusion: Law, Ethics and Immigration Policy

by Bas Schotel

On the Right of Exclusion: Law, Ethics and Immigration Policy addresses the current immigration laws and practices of Western states, and argues that if states cannot substantially justify the exclusion of...

The European Constitution, Welfare States and Democracy

by Christoffer C. Eriksen

This book explores how the right to the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital in the European Union legal order affects welfare states. These "four freedoms", as they are known, are vital instruments...